The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 7F. P. Kaiser, 1900 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 38
Page 2476
... follow- ing day , finding her a little better humored , to expostulate with her on her coldness of yesterday , she confessed , with her usual frankness , that she had no sort of dislike to his attentions ; that she could even endure ...
... follow- ing day , finding her a little better humored , to expostulate with her on her coldness of yesterday , she confessed , with her usual frankness , that she had no sort of dislike to his attentions ; that she could even endure ...
Page 2480
... follow it up . We do not care to be cheated a second time ; or , perhaps , the mind of man ( with reverence be it spoken ) is not capacious enough to lodge two puns at a time . The im- pression , to be forcible , must be simultaneous ...
... follow it up . We do not care to be cheated a second time ; or , perhaps , the mind of man ( with reverence be it spoken ) is not capacious enough to lodge two puns at a time . The im- pression , to be forcible , must be simultaneous ...
Page 2488
... follows close upon our very sorrows , reconciles us to them gradually , and sometimes renders us , at last , undesirous altogether of abandoning them . If ever you have remembered the anniversary of some day 2488 WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR ...
... follows close upon our very sorrows , reconciles us to them gradually , and sometimes renders us , at last , undesirous altogether of abandoning them . If ever you have remembered the anniversary of some day 2488 WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR ...
Page 2505
... follow the course of Dick's musical rev- erie , which he now thinks is solely a matter betwixt himself and the night , as he sits back there in the stern alone , pres- ently you will hear him sing a whole minor tune without once using a ...
... follow the course of Dick's musical rev- erie , which he now thinks is solely a matter betwixt himself and the night , as he sits back there in the stern alone , pres- ently you will hear him sing a whole minor tune without once using a ...
Page 2507
... me several of the communications received at various landings during our journey , accompanying shipments of the spurious weed . They were generally about as follows : • Deer Sir : - I send you one bag Verneller SIDNEY LANIER 2507.
... me several of the communications received at various landings during our journey , accompanying shipments of the spurious weed . They were generally about as follows : • Deer Sir : - I send you one bag Verneller SIDNEY LANIER 2507.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Addison admiration ancient appear beautiful believe Beowulf body Bunyan Cædmon called century character Christian Church civil common dark death Demosthenes earth Edinburgh Review effect England English essay eternal expression eyes faith feel force genius give Goethe greatest Gulf Stream hand heart honor human ideas imagination intellect judge king labor language learned less literature lived look Lord Machiavelli manner means ment mind moral nations nature never observed Ocklawaha passion Père Lachaise perfect perhaps person philosopher's stone philosophy physiognomy Pilgrim's Progress Plato pleasure poems poet poetry political Prince Prince Napoleon principle prose Ragnar Lodbrok reason religion Roman Saxon seems Skalds society soul speak spirit style sublime things thou thought tion truth verse virtue Vortigern WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR whole writers
Popular passages
Page 2676 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 2568 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper,* void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience...
Page 2589 - Firstly, our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them: and thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities...
Page 2590 - But as I call the other sensation, so I call this, REFLECTION, the ideas it affords being such only as the mind gets by reflecting on its own operations within itself!
Page 2466 - Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and candlelight and fire-side conversations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irony itself- — do these things go out with life...
Page 2730 - Fox, generally so regardless of his appearance, had paid to the illustrious tribunal the compliment of wearing a bag and sword. Pitt had refused to be one of the conductors of the impeachment; and his commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence was wanting to that great muster of various talents. Age and blindness had unfitted Lord North for the duties of a public prosecutor; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But, in spite of the absence...
Page 2588 - ... whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness, and others : it is in the first place then to be inquired, how he comes by them...
Page 2460 - ... most useful, and seemingly the most obvious, arts make their way among mankind. Without placing too implicit faith in the account above given, it must be agreed that if a worthy pretext for so dangerous an experiment as setting houses on fire (especially in these days) could be assigned in favor of any culinary object, that pretext and excuse might be found in ROAST PIG. Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate — princeps obsoniorum.
Page 2570 - Thirdly, In the state of nature there often wants power to back and support the sentence when right, and to give it due execution. They who by any injustice offended, will seldom fail where they are able by force to make good their injustice. Such resistance many times makes the punishment dangerous, and frequently destructive to those who attempt it.
Page 2754 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.